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<div class="gmail-_5pbx gmail-userContent gmail-_3576" id="gmail-js_46"><p>Hi everyone,</p><p>I hope you're having a wonderful day, and apologies for those of you who get a repeated salvo of this message. I would like to draw your attention to a new article "Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing" that has now been published: <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/7/2/34">https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/7/2/34</a></p><p>Some of you probably read the preprint version of this, or even provided feedback. We made quite a lot of changes to the latest version, after a lot of great comments! <br></p><p></p><p> Abstract: The changing world of scholarly
communication and the emerging new wave of ‘Open Science’ or ‘Open
Research’ has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly
debated topics. Evidence-based rational debate is regularly drowned out
by misinformed or exaggerated rhetoric, which does not benefit the
evolving system of scholarly communication. This article aims to provide
a baseline evidence framework for ten of the most contested topics, in
order to help frame and move forward discussions, practices, and
policies. We address issues around preprints and scooping, the practice
of copyright transfer, the function of peer review, predatory
publishers, and the legitimacy of ‘global’ databases. These arguments
and data will be a powerful tool against misinformation across wider
academic research, policy and practice, and will inform changes within
the rapidly evolving scholarly publishing system.</p><p> Twitter thread here summarising some of the key points: <a href="https://twitter.com/Protohedgehog/status/1128248817265070080">https://twitter.com/Protohedgehog/status/1128248817265070080</a><br></p><p>Huge thanks to all the contributors to this, and especially the amazing co-authors: Harry Crane, Tom Crick, Jacinto Davila, Asura Enkhbayar, Jo Havemann, Bianca Kramer, Ryan Martin, Paola Chiara Masuzzo, Andy Nobes, Curt Rice, Bárbara Rivera, Tony Ross-Hellauer, Susanne Sattler, Paul Thacker, and Marc Vanholsbeeck! <br></p><p>We really hope that this proves useful in helping to advance discussions. As always, we would love to hear what you think, and especially what we might have got wrong.</p><p>Best,</p><p>Jon<br></p><p><a class="gmail-_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/teamopen?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG"><span class="gmail-_5afx"><span class="gmail-_58cm"></span></span></a></p></div>
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